[BusyBox 0000880]: ifupdown fails to set hwaddress

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=880 
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Reported By:                byronclark
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   880
Category:                   Networking Support
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             05-24-2006 08:25 PDT
Last Modified:              05-24-2006 08:25 PDT
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Summary:                    ifupdown fails to set hwaddress
Description: 
When using ifup to enable an interface that has a hwaddress line in
/etc/network/interfaces the SIOCSIFHWADDR ioctl fails with a message that
the device is busy.  This happens because all the parameters are sent on a
single ifconfig line and thus the interface is set to an UP state before
the hwaddress portion is processed.
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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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05-24-06 08:25  byronclark     New Issue                                    
05-24-06 08:25  byronclark     Status                   new => assigned     
05-24-06 08:25  byronclark     Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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